Youth Trajectories in a Field of Contradictions: Precariousness of Work and Violations of Rights in Professional Male Football

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva César, Maurício
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Antonio Scherer, Giovane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Textos & contextos (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fass/article/view/44003
• topic: youth; soccer; work; job market; juventude; futebol; trabalho; mercado de trabalho

The investigation aimed to analyze how the exploitation of youth work in football has been constituted and its impact on the trajectories, ways and conditions of life of young people. The study aimed to identify how the ball market has been developing in times of financialization of capital, by analyzing how youth work is configured with regard to insertion in the ball market. In view of this, to verify how the rights guarantee system acts in the social protection of adolescents and young people in this context. The research, based on a critical perspective that makes use of dialectical historical materialism as a method. It is characterized as a qualitative research, exploratory and descriptive. The study consisted of a bibliographic review research with selected studies in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and articles from the CAPES Periodicals Portal that were related to the theme of youth trajectories in the high performance football job market. In relation to the fi eld research, semi-structured interviews were carried out in the online modality, with eleven research participants, among them, soccer players, ex-players and workers of technical commissions of the basic categories of clubs that were available. to carry out the research. Through it, we sought to analyze issues that involve the exploitation of work, the trajectories, ways and conditions of life from the insertion in the football market. As results point to the various contradictions that constitute the youth trajectory, markedly fetishized, as the job market in football for young people on the path of professionalization is manifested by processes of exclusion. The research findings point to the need to break with the fetishes of the ball market, which are ingrained in the social imaginary, since the reality for most football players is marked by disposability, low wages, flexibility in work relationships, structures of bad work among other issues invisible to a large part of society. This appearance often naturalises, hides and hides processes of exclusion and violation of rights that young people on the path to professional football may experience.